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response to Mr SklyarenkoEDNOTE seems to be something about the Maar story that seems to raise the blood pressure of some subscribers. I do not understand why this should be the case. It is simply another topic to be examined so that subscribers get sufficient information to make their own informed opinions.
I hasten to add that I do not include Ole Nyegaard among the intemperate and I join him in the thought that undue fervor is not helpful in regard to the status of God or Nabokov.
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From: Ole Nyegaard
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:13 PM
Subject: Michael Maar
Dear List
I'm terribly sorry if I sidetrack an interesting theological discussion on VN's divinity, but still...
Plese enlighten me, I still fail to see what it is that Michael Maar has discovered.
I have read his article in the Franfurter Allgemeine, and the TLS thing, not to speak of the horrid short story by Lichenberg, and Maar fails to convince me in anyway. Dieter Zimmer is absolutely right in terming the parrallels between the short story and VN's Lolita vague. It amuses me furthermore that Maar in order to prove his find as, well, a find has to draw in parallels to other works by VN; here the parallels get more than just vague - they become watered down. Why didn't (or did he?) Maar read the articles by Dolinin and Couturier before making headlines with what should a been an very short footnote?
Best
Ole Nyegaard (who neither belives in God nor in VN as an ersatz-bodhisattva), Denmark
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I hasten to add that I do not include Ole Nyegaard among the intemperate and I join him in the thought that undue fervor is not helpful in regard to the status of God or Nabokov.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ole Nyegaard
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:13 PM
Subject: Michael Maar
Dear List
I'm terribly sorry if I sidetrack an interesting theological discussion on VN's divinity, but still...
Plese enlighten me, I still fail to see what it is that Michael Maar has discovered.
I have read his article in the Franfurter Allgemeine, and the TLS thing, not to speak of the horrid short story by Lichenberg, and Maar fails to convince me in anyway. Dieter Zimmer is absolutely right in terming the parrallels between the short story and VN's Lolita vague. It amuses me furthermore that Maar in order to prove his find as, well, a find has to draw in parallels to other works by VN; here the parallels get more than just vague - they become watered down. Why didn't (or did he?) Maar read the articles by Dolinin and Couturier before making headlines with what should a been an very short footnote?
Best
Ole Nyegaard (who neither belives in God nor in VN as an ersatz-bodhisattva), Denmark
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